Washington State University Libraries

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MASC Historic Vertical File

Collection, 1768-1976

Acquisition And Processing Information

This collection, the remainder of an obsolete departmental vertical file in Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections at the Washington State University Libraries, was processed in 2011.

Extent/Quantity Information

Number of containers: 11

Linear feet of shelf space: 7

Collection Description

This collection consists of miscellaneous printed ephemera, mimeographed typescripts, and other items on a wide variety of subjects from the "vertical file" in Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections. This file was gradually dismantled and the contents were transferred to other MASC collections to enhance access, a project that lasted from approximately 2000 to 2011. Most of the transferred materials were moved to the MASC rare book collection or were converted into manuscript collections. The 313 files listed below represent the remainder of the vertical file.

Most of the descriptions provided in the listing below were transcribed from existing catalog cards, so some descriptive details, especially subject terms, are incomplete, outdated or obsolete.

Collection Arrangement

This collection is arranged in numerical order by the original vertical file (VF) number.

Separated Material

Most items from the original vertical file have been removed and cataloged separately.

Access

This collection is open and available for research use. Copyright restrictions may apply.

Location Note (Masc Staff Use)

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Languages

Nearly all of the materials in this collection are in English, with a few items in German.

Title/description: Official program of the second annual Washington State Beekeepers' Association meeting, the sixth annual Inland Registered Stock Breeders' Association meeting, and the second annual Wheat Convention of the Wheat Producers', Shippers' and Millers' Association of Washington at Washington State College, Pullman, 1907 January 7-11. Printed pamphlet, 16 pages.

Title/description: The Student counselor on the job, a manual for student counselors, including the annual report of the student counselor committee. New York, 1944. Pamphlet, 53 pages, plus related printed items.

Title/description: President's annual address delivered at the opening of the Fourth annual conference of the League of Pacific Northwest Municipalities, held in Spokane, WA, 1915 September 28-30. Pamphlet, 6 pages.

Title/description: Doing research on Native Americans, part 1 of a bibliography for the Native American Studies Program at Washington State University, 1971 February. Mimeographed typescript, 17 leaves.

Subjects/keywords: Indians -- Bibliography.

VF 918

Author: Lister, Ernest, 1870-1918.

Title/description: Administrative legislation, an address before the twenty-fifth annual convention of the Washington State Bar Association, August 7-8, 1913, by Governor Ernest Lister. 4 pages (printed).

Title/description: Collection of mounted newspaper columns, "In the Columbia Basin A Century Ago" by Ruth Karr McKee, published in the Grand Coulee (Wash.) Star, 1941 October 31-1942 February 27. 13 items.

Title/description: Gift of the waters (historical Indian pageant) presented annually the first Sunday in August at the world's largest hot mineral spring in Hot Springs State Park, Thermopolis, Wyoming, circa 1930s. Pamphlet, 4 leaves.

Subjects/keywords: Big Horn Hot Springs; Washakie, Shoshone Chief.

VF 1038

Title/description: Student assignment book published for Austin M. Burton by The Hallcrafters at their shop which is located on Maiden Lane in Pullman, Washington, 1938. Pamphlet containing advertising for merchants in Pullman, WA, and Moscow, ID, with blank forms for students to record assignment information. 10 leaves.

Subjects/keywords: Advertising -- Specimens -- Pullman (Wash.).

VF 1083

Author: National Congress of Mothers and Parent-Teacher Associations. Washington State Branch.

Title/description: The organization and administration of the agricultural college with special reference to the extension service. U.S. Bureau of Education, 1916 December 1. Bound mimeographed typescript, 38 leaves.

Title/description: Transcriptions and clippings of press accounts of the death of Walter Edwin Peck, Dean of the Graduate School and Head of the English Department at the State College of Washington in 1926-1927. Also clippings about Dr. Peck, 1927-1954. These items recount the failure of Peck's academic career and his subsequent years of homelessness and mental illness.

Title/description: Petitions about the Whitestone Reclamation District and the Whitestone-Horse Spring Coulee Irrigation District, directed to the Reclamation Board of the State of Washington and the Washington State Reclamation Service, circa 1919. 2 items.

Title/description: Collection of Pullman (WA) ephemera, including programs from the Audian Theatre (22 items, circa 1937-1942); programs from the Cordova Theatre (28 items, circa 1937-1949); and a program from the United Presbyterian Church (1914 September 27).

Title/description: Northwest Sanitarium, a health institution having all modern equipment for the treatment of acute and chronic medical and surgical cases. Circa 1919. Bound pamphlet, 4 leaves. The pamphlet describes the sanitarium's facilities and services.

Subjects/keywords: Pullman (Wash.) -- Hospitals.

Notes: The building occupied by the Northwest Sanitarium from 1916 to 1923 was converted in 1931 to a funeral home operated by Kimball and Son, still in operation as of 2011.

VF 1317

Title/description: Pullman public schools ephemera, including commencement programs (1897, 1900, 1948, 1950), Columbus Day celebration and school building dedication program (1892 October 21), and program for a religious service, "Sermon to Class of 1916."

Title/description: Community exhibits of Pullman and Moscow presented to the Civil Aeronautics Board to show the need of air service to the Pullman-Moscow Regional Airport. Circa 1945. Bound pamphlet, 28 pages.

Title/description: Poems: I have no room for mother, Darkest Seattle, and The Pride of great Seattle. 1903. Broadsides. 3 items.

Subjects/keywords: Seattle (Wash.) -- Description -- Poetry.

Notes: Don Stuart, donor, 1961.

VF 1413

Author: Rural Life Conference.

Title/description: Program of the third annual rural life conference to be held at Washington State Normal School, Bellingham, Washington, March 20-22, 1919. 2 leaves.

Subjects/keywords: Country life -- Study and teaching.

VF 1475

Author: Emmanuel Lutheran Church (Spokane, WA).

Title/description: The story of fifty years, a brief history of the Emmanuel Lutheran Church, Spokane, Wash., 1939. Pamphlet, 32 pages.

VF 1510

Title/description: Ben Hogan, reformed pugilist, will deliver his celebrated lecture upon the dark and bright sides of life this evening. Announcement of lecture, with Hogan's story of the Prodigal Son and Billy's Ten Commandments. Circa 1870s-1880s. Leaflet, 2 pages.

Title/description: War time news service with a punch, Spokane dailies help weld a great Inland Empire into a powerful force for victory. Spokane, The Spokesman-Review and Spokane Daily Chronicle, 1943. Broadsheet, 4 pages.

Title/description: Catalog of acquaintance cards, with one specimen card, undated. Also an explanation of "stamp language" from the Information Department of the Spokesman-Review newspaper, 1936. 3 items.

Title/description: The Stevenson Plan for state old age compensation, old age security as a social problem. Seattle, circa 1936. Pamphlet, 15 pages. 2 copies.

Subjects/keywords: Old age assistance.

VF 1568

Author: Washington State Library.

Title/description: Reading lists: Washingtoniana: a selected list of books about the State of Washington, Olympia, 1941 September; and Selected reading list on the State of Washington, Olympia, 1950. Mimeographed typescripts.

Title/description: Spokane University versus Spokane College. A statement of the plan of consolidation. Addressed to the members of the Columbia River Conference and designed to be confidential within Methodist circles. Boston, Alfred Mudge and So., 1891. Brochure.

Title/description: Pamphlets by Robert Montgomery. Among the stars, an address before the Caledonian and St. Andrew's Society, Tacoma, Washington, 1930; and Evolution, circa 1930-1935 (with inscription to Dr. Holland, New Years, 1935). 2 items.

Subjects/keywords: Cosmology -- Addresses; Evolution -- Addresses.

VF 1825

Author: White, Mary Elmina, b. 1882.

Title/description: The William J. White Family of St. John, Washington. Genealogy by Elma Wagner Kimm. 1958 May. Pamphlet, 16 leaves.

Subjects/keywords: White Family.

VF 1830

Title/description: Whitman College ephemera (2 items). Whitman College and Walla Walla (mimeographed typescript about the college and community, with information about the college's financial difficulties during the Great Depression), 1936, 3 pages. Songs of Whitman College, 1916. Bound pamphlet, 27 pages.

Title/description: The Business Mirror, volume 18, number 1-volume 24, number 2; 1938 January-1944 March (incomplete). "Published by the Washington Farmer, The Idaho Farmer and The Oregon Farmer, composing the Pacific Northwest Farm Trio devoted to the interests of merchants, dealers and distributors in the Pacific Northwest." 3 issues.

Title/description: Collection of promotional pamphlets for Kennewick, Washington, circa 1906-1959. Published by the Kennewick Chamber of Commerce, and Kennewick Land Company. 4 items.

Subjects/keywords: Kennewick (Wash.) -- Description.

VF 2210

Author: Waterfront Employers Association of the Pacific Coast.

Title/description: The facts before the fact finding board, 1946. "The facts in the contract negotiations between the Shipping Industry of the West Coast and the International Longshoremen's and Warehouseman's Union." Pamphlet, 14 pages.

Title/description: Saving our common schools, being a discussion of financing, basic support, teaching, salaries, and proposed programs. As given by Governor Clarence D. Martin in a statewide radio speech. Seattle, circa 1941. Brochure.

Subjects/keywords: Education, elementary -- Washington (State).

VF 2242

Author: Cowen, Edward David, 1857-

Title/description: School system needs receivership, by E.D. Cowen (Spokesman-Review, Spokane, 1914 April 28) and The folly of our taxes, by T.D. Rockwell (Post-Intelligencer, Seattle, 1914 April 30). Brochure.

Subjects/keywords: Taxation -- Washington (State).

Notes: Libbie B. Hoag, donor, 1942.

VF 2243

Author: Roberts, Alexander C.

Title/description: Centralia Normal School and southwestern Washington, circa 1923. Brochure. Includes presentation note by the author to E.O. Holland.

Title/description: Reports on Seattle public school expenditures, 1921. 2 items: Porter, Arthur W., Survey of the Seattle school administration for the Tax Reduction Council by a committee composed of Arthur W. Porter, M.P. Bullock, John T. Wheatman, circa 1921 (mimeographed typescript, 19 pages); and report of Special Committee on Health Department of Public Schools of Seattle, circa 1921 (mimeographed typescript, 6 pages).

Title/description: A plan to provide adult education for the people of the State of Washington, submitted to the Washington State Planning Council, 1937 November 18. Mimeographed typescript, 4 leaves.

Subjects/keywords: Education of adults -- Washington (State).

VF 2262

Author: Washington State Superintendent of Public Instruction.

Title/description: Eighth grade examination questions; ninety complete sets of questions covering ten subjects; a compilation of three years of the eighth grade examination questions used in the State of Washington, together with rules and suggestions for the examinations. Colville, The Colville Examiner, 1932. Bound volume, 91 pages.

Title/description: 2 items: Reapportionment and redistricting, a study for the State of Washington (State Memo No. 2), 1954 October (pamphlet, 16 pages); An analysis of issues on the November ballot based on the text of the measures, and the publicized arguments--pro and con, 1950 October (pamphlet, 6 leaves).

Title/description: Extension of electric service into small country communities and rural districts, 1913. Speech delivered by M.C. Osborn of the Washington Water Power Company at Spokane Washington, 1913 September. Pamphlet, 11 pages.

Title/description: The Northwest in national defense, an address by K.M. Robinson, President, The Washington Water Power Company, before Edison Electric Institute Convention, 1940 June 5. Pamphlet, 10 pages.

Title/description: The plain ABC's you should know about Hell's Canyon Dam as proposed by federal agencies, 1952. Pamphlet, 23 pages.

Subjects/keywords: Hells Canyon Dam; Snake River -- Dams.

Notes: R.D. Sloan, donor, 1960.

VF 2456

Author: Hutton, S.E.

Title/description: The water-distributing system of the Columbia Basin Irrigation Project, presented...to the Spokane Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers, 1945 December 14. Mimeographed typescript, 10 pages.

Title/description: Electrical features of the Bonneville project; text of informal paper presented at the fourteenth annual general meeting of the Engineering and Operating Section, Northwest Electric Light and Power Association, Portland, Oregon, 1937 April 21-24. Mimeographed typescript, 21 pages.

Title/description: Respondent's answering brief in complaint of Walla Walla Department of Public Works vs. Pacific Power and Light Company before the Division of Public Utilities, Department of Public Works of Washington, 1928. Bound volume, 69 pages.

Title/description: Timber resources of the Lewiston country (data and comment on the stand within the drainage of the four great rivers, the concentrated flow of which meets at Lewiston). Lewiston, Idaho, circa 1925. Pamphlet, 6 pages.

Subjects/keywords: Lumbering -- Idaho.

VF 2525

Author: The League for the Promotion of Militant Atheism, Pullman, Washington.

Title/description: History of the Fraternal Beneficial Association; a memorial to a group of German-American homesteaders who put a practical vision into effect, 1961. Mimeographed typescript, 14 leaves.

Title/description: Live Hook, numbers 11/12-20/22 (lacking number 16); 1922 May 29-July 31. 8 issues. Washington State Press Association newsletter. These issues cover the time period surrounding the association's 36th annual convention, held at Washington State College, Pullman, July 14-16.

Title/description: Appellants' opening brief, appeal from the judgment of the Superior Court of Whitman County in the Supreme Court of the State of Washington. Inland Empire Railroad Company, respondent, vs. Whitman County and E.B. Thompson, as Treasurer of Whitman County, appellants. Colfax, WA, 1923. Pamphlet, 39 pages.

Title/description: Prospectus for the Pullman Development Company, organized for the purpose of erecting and renting buildings, particularly a dormitory or dormitories for college students. Circa 1910. Brochure, 2 leaves.

Subjects/keywords: Washington State University -- Student housing.

VF 2726

Title/description: Western Steam Fiends Souvenir Magazine. Suisun City, California, Campbell Printing Company, 1956 May. Record of the Western Steam Fields Association annual meeting, September 18, 1955, Chris Busch farm, Colton, Washington. With related correspondence and photograph of an engine taken during a later annual meeting at Yacolt, WA, 1958.

Title/description: The lower Snake project, preliminary study by E.G. Hopson, being a report to the Chamber of Commerce, Pasco, Washington, 1916. Pamphlet about a proposed dam at Five Mile Rapids, about 5 miles above the mouth of the river. 9 pages. Includes a letter from Hopson to the Chamber of Commerce, 1919 January 29. Typescript (carbon), 2 leaves.

Subjects/keywords: Irrigation -- Snake River Basin.

VF 2752

Title/description: Valley authorities, a special number of Governmental Affairs, volume 7, number 6; 1950 January 10, about the proposal to create a Columbia Valley Authority. Newsletter, 3 leaves.

Title/description: Laws relating to the duties of election officials, by H.H. Wheeler, County Auditor, undated. Pamphlet, 11 pages. (Note: the county is not named.)

Subjects/keywords: Election law -- Washington (State).

VF 2767

Title/description: Memorial honoring the late Dr. W.J. Spillman of the United States Department of Agriculture, sometime head of the Department of Agriculture of the State College of Washington, held at the college, October 22, 1931. Mimeographed typescript, 23 pages. 2 copies.

Title/description: Letter from Capt. Jonathan Carver at Michillimackinac, to his wife at Montague, 1767 September 24, as published in the Boston Chronicle, 1768 February 15-22 issue. Newspaper clipping.

Subjects/keywords: Dakota Indians; United States -- Discovery and exploration.

Title/description: Papers presented at the ninth annual convention of the Northwest Electric Light and Power Association, 1916. 5 items (pamphlets): Cooper, M.D., Voltage standardization; Crawford, M.T., Application of overhead line construction rules of the Public Service Commissions of the Northwest; Gunn, Arthur, The employee as the educator of the public; McArthur, Lewis, et al., Electrical operating and merchandising in small towns; Putnam, W.R., et al., Electric range report.

Title/description: Cashmere, WA, and Liberty Orchards (subject file). Includes correspondence between Clarence Gorchels of the State College of Washington Library and Liberty Orchards Company about the history of Aplets and Cotlets, 1951; McDougal, Elizabeth, The history of Mission, 1912 (typescript, carbon, 3 leaves); also miscellaneous notes and transcribed newspaper stories about the history of Cashmere and Liberty Orchards.